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1236) The players come across a corpse of an elderly woman, still intact as is the standard. Two of the players identify her as their mother... but they aren't brothers.

Any attempts to dispel illusion fail. The two PCs are cousins, their mothers were identical twins. Of course, you don't tell them this, they get to wonder.

I realize this one will be hard to pull off unless you know all of your PCs complete backstory's, you would have to ensure that those two PCs had never met one another's parents, and both of them would had to have had families in Cyre at the time of the Mourning.

EDIT: 1237) The PC's find an area that looks as if it escaped the horrors of the mourning. A small cottage is there, with an elderly man reading a story to a young boy outside the home, and what seems like the boys parents sitting and laughing in a flower bed. However, the PCs notice that they can't hear any of this. They will notice that the corruption doesn't fade away around the house, it ends abruptly, there is a clear line where the charred and decaying earth ends and the pleasant grass begins. If any of the players try and cross this line, they feel a shock (no damage) and are pushed back.

They may walk away at this point, but if they continue to investigate they will find that the child goes off to play and runs right past the line of where the decay starts, and seems to simply vanish. A few moments later, he comes running back, re-appearing just as quickly.

If the PCs are really interested they may find that once every 5 minuets for about one second the invisible barrier keeping them out dissipates. It takes a fairly high Dex check (i suppose use your own judgment on how much you want them to be able to get in) but it is possible.

If any of the PCs do make it in, the family turns out to be hostile. Not only hostile, but the image that they were human was only true from the outside looking in. (Use some humanoid that is level appropriate, and theme appropriate for the Mournlands)

If some of the PCs don't make it in and some do, as soon as the line is crossed the area seems to vanish to the PCs still outside of it. It becomes just another barren waste like the rest of the Mournlands.

To the PC that made it in, they still see the mournlands outside of the small area. Two things could happen here:

1) The PC(s) manage to kill the family, in which case the same Dex check that got them in could get them out again.

2) The family kills the PC, and eats their flesh. They will take one of the PCs bones and start hammering on the invisible wall to time when they need to go, and come out of their home area and attack the rest of the party.

I would love to take credit for that one, but its ripped off of an episode of The Outer Limits.

Soltares:
Consider that idea yoinked!

1245) A forest of trees with thousands of bottles hanging from the branches. If a bottle is picked and unstoppered, you can here the voice of someone describing what they did on the day of the Mourning. If you pick enough, perhaps you'll come across a Cannith heir...

1247. Temporal Bubble
A temporal bubble of space, that jumps things backwards and forwards in time. Cyrans from the "Great Last War" who don't know they lose the war, contemporary monsters like living spells, hobgoblins from the ancient Pre-Galifar Empire & a far-future city of Warforged built on this spot called Morning.

All these things start to occur at once in a pocket of space which is a mesh up of all these areas, from all the different temporal states. Each group fighting for their right to exist in this space they call home.